The reports of these
expeditions that stand upon the police record have as little semblance
of the deeds achieved as have stark and grinning skeletons in the
medical student's private cupboard to the living moving bodies they
once were. The records of these deeds are the bare bones. The flesh and
blood, the life and colour are to be found only in the memories of those
who were concerned in their achievement.
But even in these bony records there are to be seen frequent entries in
which the names of Inspector Dickson and Constable Cameron stand side
by side. For the Inspector was a man upon whom the Commissioner and
the Superintendent delighted to load their more dangerous and delicate
cases, and it was upon Cameron when it was possible that the Inspector's
choice for a comrade fell.
It was such a case as this that held the Commissioner and Superintendent
Crawford in anxious consultation far into a late September night. When
the consultation was over, Inspector Dickson was called in and the
result of this consultation laid before him.
"We have every reason to believe, as you well know, Inspector Dickson,"
said the Commissioner, "that there is a secret and wide-spread
propagandum being carried on among our Indians, especially among the
Piegans, Bloods, and Blackfeet, with the purpose of organizing rebellion
in connection with the half-breed discontent in the territories to the
east of us.
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